A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about some announcements we made at TechEd on the next version of Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management.  We did a pretty good overview demo and released a white paper that gave a pretty good overview of...

Last week, we released a cumulative update for TFS 2010 SP1. You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=bca68e8d-4612-48cd-9418-1b973d41073f . The KB article is in the process of being published and should be available...

It’s been a looong time since I published a detailed look at TFS dogfooding.  I used to do them every month but then the server got so big and the reports monotonous enough that I decided to stop.  I’ve had a number of queries about it in the...

I’ve seen a few reports lately of TFS customers whose databases were growing very rapidly.  After investigation, it has often turned out to be that they were uploading a lot of large attachments to TFS as part of their testing process and then not...

We’re gradually adding to the resources available to understand what you can do with Team Foundation Server and Project Server using the Team Foundation Server and Project Server Integration Feature Pack to manage enterprise development projects. Here...

It’s been a while since I last talked about our work on TFS on Azure and I’ve been feeling like it’s time to give some kind of an update.  We made a bunch of new ALM announcements about our ALM roadmap at TechEd and we didn’t say too much about hosted...

For the last year or so I’ve been giving talks about trends in software development and particularly ALM.  I’ve described one of the big upcoming trends as the need for better collaboration between development and operations.  The state of that...

Yesterday was a big day for us!  In his keynote at TechEd yesterday Jason Zander gave an overview of our ALM roadmap.  In a follow up session Cameron Skinner did more of a deep dive, demonstrating many of the new features coming in the next...

From the beginning, extensibility of TFS was a core design principle – both to enable great 3rd party partners (like Ekobit, Urban Turtle, InCycle and more) and because almost all development shops have a need to customize the tools they use.  As...

discount ASP.net has added an option to their hosted TFS service for you to host your TFS in the UK.  If you want to learn more, check it out here: http://www.discountasp.net/tfs/ Brian

With the release of the final Feature Pack of the TFS/PS connector, we’ve now released an updated virtual machine that contains full configured and ready to test drive bits with all the final software.  You can read Brian Keller’s blog entry on it...

I ran across this today and thought you might find it useful.  If you’d like to try our Azure with no-strings attached, no credit card, no commitment, there’s a cool offer available now.  You can learn more about it here: http://windowsazurepass...

This week we released, both to the MSDN subscriber download site and to public downloads, a language pack for Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1.  This language pack includes Japanese, French and German resources that can be added to your English...

One of the fairly common requests we get is for some way to organize build definitions.  If you have more than a dozen or two build definitions in a single Team Project, the Team Explorer starts to get unwieldy.  At our MVP Summit a couple of...

We’ve just completed a nice case study with InnovaSystems on their adoption of Team Foundation Server in order to achieve CMMI Level 3 compliance. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-.NET-Framework-4/InnovaSystems-International/Defense-Contractor...

Last week, we released a new, tested, binary release of the integration platform (the source has been on CodePlex for a while).  This release primarily contains a bunch of bug fixes.  The bugs came from our internal use of server to server synchronization...

  A new book on Team Foundation server has just recently been released.  It’s an in-depth view of using the breadth of TFS 2010 capabilities and includes a lot of information on customizing and extending TFS. I know the authors well (2 of them...

In early April, Ed Thomson, one of the TFS developers working on Team Explorer Everywhere will be making a tour through the mid-west US talking with customers and user groups.  If you are interested in learning more about TFS and Java or non-Windows...

As you may know Discount ASP.net has been offering hosted TFS for a while now.  They’ve just launched an add-on of Urban Turtle that provides a great SCRUM experience on top of TFS.  They are offering a free 30 day trial so it’s a great time...

The dangers of late breaking changes :(.  In the final weeks of 2010 SP1, we made a performance improvement for viewing build information from the build explorer.  Unfortunately, this was after the Beta and after our compatibility test pass...

We’ve been working with some MSIT teams for many months on our integration between TFS and Project Server.  They started dogfooding it as soon as we could say “it’s working” with a straight face.  They’ve now run multiple projects with it and...

We released a ton of new stuff this week and this, of course, only adds to all the other stuff we have released. I got a request on one of my posts to clarify what is installed where and in what order. I’ll try to make sense of it all here. First...

Today is a big day of releases and announcements. Two of the big ones are that VS 2010 SP1 and TFS 2010 SP1 have shipped and that the Team Foundation Server Project Server Integration Feature Pack is now available for MSDN subscribers. As of today, both...

Today we announced the release of the Load Testing Feature Pack. This gives Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN users the ability to do unlimited load testing. Previously you had to separately purchase Load Test Packs that each included the ability to simulate...

Today we released an update to the Team Foundation Server Power Tools. You can download them here: Main Power Tools Build Extensions MSSCCI plugin (unchanged from previous release) The primary enhancements in this release are: Addressed reported issues...